We asked for your photos, and you shared them! Here's a roundup of our best reader photos today.

We asked for your photos, and you shared them! Here's a roundup of our best reader photos today. Do you want to see your photos featured in our daily Take 5? Submit your top shots at yourtake.usatoday.com or in the drop-down menu of your USA TODAY iPhone app.

Contributor Denise McNickle captured an old schoolhouse at sunset in the Flint Hills of Kansas, north of Cottonwood Falls, Kan. "That area is beautiful in late spring and summer, especially for Kansas. Many ranchers take their cattle herds there to graze," McNickle writes.

An old schoolhouse stands at sunset in the Flint Hills of Kansas.(Photo: Denise McNickle, Your Take)

Although David Winston was at a hot air balloon festival, this image of the flag against a backdrop of clouds was his favorite photo he took that day.

A cloud pattern provides a backdrop to the U.S. flag in Montague, Calif.(Photo: David Winston, Your Take)

The Parachute Jump ride in Coney Island, Brooklyn, N.Y., lights up red, white and blue for Independence Day in this photo that Phil Staiman took with an iPhone 5S.

During a sunny day at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, Dara Fazel saw a bird taking its morning bath. "I watched him step out of the lake and climb on to the stone, oblivious to all his surroundings. I thought how great it must be to be that carefree."

A bird takes a bath at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.(Photo: Dara Fazel, Your Take)

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It's too chilly for a picnic at Picnic Point Park on the Puget Sound in Edmonds, Wash., but the wintertime sunset makes for a stunning view. Contributro Jessica LaVoie captured this shot Feb. 14, 2015, using her Nikon D5200. (Photo: Jessica LaVoie, Your Take)

"I love capturing images of water and waves, so after lots of experimentation, I started making mini waves in my kitchen to have a consistent subject when the weather isn’t cooperating." (Photo: Nathan French, Your Take)

Victor Mirontschuk shot this couple in Grand Central Station on Feb. 20 using his Sony A6000. Mirontschuk's goal was to capture the stillness of the pair and the blur of movement around them. (Photo: Victor Mirontschuk, Your Take)

It was minus 14 degrees at 7 a.m. Feb. 19 in North Ridgeville, Ohio, when contributor Robert Daveant used his a Canon 60D DSLR and a 70-200mm f/2.8L lens to capture this photo from his kitchen window. "This little guy was thriving, munching away on what was left of my flower garden." (Photo: Robert Daveant, Your Take)

Leslie Sigala used her trusty crystal ball to frame this amazing reflection of Half Dome on the Sentinel Bridge in Yosemite Valley, Calif. The photo was taken with a Sony Alpha 65V on Feb. 20, 2015. (Photo: Leslie Sigala, Your Take)

February is the "favorite time of the year for this albino squirrel" in the Minneapolis area. Contributor Sharyl Zeno says she shot this photo in 2014 with a Sony A850 full frame camera and a Tamron 200-500m lens. (Photo: Sharyl Zeno, Your Take)

Colton Carlson, 24, of Pueblo, Colo., rests Jan. 28 after climbing the Aconcagua summit of nearly 23,000 feet in Argentina. The feat was part of the Warfighter Sports Aconcagua Challenge. Carlson, who was one of four wounded warriors on Disabled Sports USA’s Warfighter Sports Team, lost his legs to an IED in Afghanistan. (Photo: Ryan Waters, Your Take)

Phog Allen enjoys a roll in the grass last spring in Stäfa, Switzerland. Contributor Kelli Shoemaker says she adopted Phog from an abusive situation and until then he had never touched grass. (Photo: Kelli Shoemaker, Your Take)

Walking to work with his Sony A6000, contributor Victor Mirontschuk noticed a new art installation being set up in Madison Square Park and stopped to frame the Flatiron Building through a clear glass ball. (Photo: Victor Mirontschuk, Your Take)

On Feb. 4 while Bill Lyon flew a plane over the island of O'ahu, Hawaii, he took this photo from above with his GoPro. The photo is centered above the city of Pupukea, where Lyon lives, with Waimea Bay on the right of the photo. (Photo: Bill Lyon, Your Take)

"I loved the symmetry, the colors, and the balance, so I grabbed my camera, waited for a cloud to pass in front of the sun to diffuse the sunlight, and took this shot." (Photo: Jennifer Messina, Your Take)